Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) stärker nu det nordiska samarbetet genom en avsiktsförklaring med Aalto-universitetet i Finland. Fokus för samarbetet ligger inom forskningsområdena artificiell intelligens, autonoma system och mjukvara.
WASP has now passed its fifth year and with an expanded program including initiatives towards AI and Math, WASP continues to build the foundations for ensuring research with relevance and impact.The WASP4ALL 2021 conference will highlight and showcase the excellence that WASP is producing.
The two largest research programs in Sweden, the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) and the SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS), will team up in a new collaborative effort, with the ultimate goal of solving ground breaking research questions and to create synergies across disciplines.
WASP associated researchers Per Runeson and Emma Söderberg, both from Lund University, recently contributed to a pilot study on data sharing for machine learning research from ESS.
During 2020, several WASP-funded PhD students and senior researchers have received prestigious awards for their scientific findings. We let the authors describe their awarded papers.
It is clear that the topic of this year’s WASP4ALL conference is most relevant to many researchers’ agendas, as 400 people signed up to learn more about Virtual Worlds for Artificial Intelligence.
Understanding invisible connections through our emotions and senses. That is what Professor Benoit Baudry and his art collective ReThread hope to achieve with the interactive art installation Pellow. An exhibition literally giving a sense of what goes on under of the hood of the world wide web.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are often used to interpret or to see patterns in large sets of data. Gustav Eje Henter, WASP Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, instead uses machine learning in the opposite direction, to generate new data in the form of synthetic speech and motion.
An enthusiastic and driven leader acceded to the post of WASP Program Director during summer. A challenge well suited for this expert in scientific visualization - Professor Anders Ynnerman.
A vital aspect of artificial intelligence is the ability to use social contexts and rules. ”Most of our behaviour is based on social context, so being able to capture that is essential. This is an under-explored area, and WASP offered an opportunity to focus on that”, says Professor Frank Dignum, Wallenberg Chair in AI.
A WASP Research Arena for Software sees its dawn. The WARA for Software aims to enable software research in close collaboration between WASP’s academic and industrial partners.
WASP has a new WARA Director, Torbjörn Lundahl. As having been part of the initial planning of the research arenas within WASP, he is looking forward to develop this strategic instrument even further.
“Artificial intelligence has to be able to both reason and learn new things. What I particularly like is that Örebro University is strong in both these areas.”, says Luc De Raedt, new Wallenberg Guest Professor in AI at Örebro University.
“People now live better than kings did a couple of hundred years ago – thanks to science. The best way to help the Billions of people still living in poverty and not destroy the planet is to make science more efficient”, says Professor Ross King, one of the new Wallenberg Chairs recruitments to WASP, and the creator of the Robot Scientist.
Tre WASP-forskare har nyligen mottagit utmärkelser för sina arbeten. Särskilt märks Best Student Paper till doktoranden Kathlén Kohn, KTH för sitt framstående arbete inom matematik för AI.
